Microsoft and Yahoo have finally stopped anxiously batting eyelashes and brushing against each other when they pass each other in the halls. Unfortunately for the paparazzi, the relationship has not started with a bang, but rather a Bing. Yahoo will now use Bing to provide its search results, but in order to preserve its unsullied status has refused payment from Microsoft for any services rendered. Instead they would like to simply split the bills and write nasty letters to that noisy neighbour upstairs, Google.

While the current (and only) client of GLOBALFOUNDRIES is AMD, they have finally officially announced their first 3rd party partner for production. STMicroelectronics is choosing GF to be a partner for 40 nm low power devices, which can possibly power future cell phones. This is an exciting development for GF, as many around the industry were not entirely certain they could pull off being a successful foundry. Well, certainly one new client will not bring in billions of dollars of revenue, but it is a beginning. And an important one, considering that GF is still nowhere

Asustek and Acer are focusing their attentions on the thin end of the mobile market, choosing to not launch any netbooks, instead it is ultra-thin notebooks or CULVs whatever label you wish to give them. The Eee line will expand with 12", 13.3" and 15" models along with 12" and 14" variants that will not have an optical drive. Acer already has 13.3", 14.1" and 15.6" models, it will work on including discreet graphics cards and optical drives in those models and are abandoning the dual boot Windows XP/Android
netbook for the foreseeable future.

One terabyte drives are fairly common now, but they come in 3.5" which is rather unfriendly for mobile users. Western Digital is introducing 1TB 2.5" drives at a premium price. Roughly double the cost of their larger brethren, there still many who will be clamouring for a chance to store 500GB of old unread email on their laptop so that they can complain the mail store runs slowly on their laptop as well as their desktop. Others will be happy to store HD content for playback, without having to use an optical drive and drain their batteries even more quickly.

Putting together a PC on the cheap is not a hard thing to do in this market, as long as you are not looking to break 3DMark records. For a simple HTPC, there are a $50 graphics cards which will give you enough power to pump out HD content to a TV or monitor. Size really isn't an issue either, though some will spend a little extra for that special box. Once you are up and running, even on an HTPC, as long as you can connect

For a true audiophile, an onboard sound solution just won't cut it, nor will it get the most out of high end speakers. The ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim can help, thanks to a pair of HDMI ports, Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio surround sound formats are both fully supported. The card also drops CPU usage to almost zero for sound processing, a great advantage if you are running a low powe

(Saratoga Springs, NY) - Luther Forest Technology Campus Economic Development Corporation (LFTC) today welcomed GLOBALFOUNDRIES as they held their official groundbreaking in Malta, NY for the construction of an approximately $4.2 billion microchip fabrication plant, called Fab 2. This marks the beginning for the construction of the most advanced chip fabrication plant in the world.

If you are using the shiny new iPhone to conduct your business, there is something you ought to know. Purple Ra1n and Red Sn0w are two readily available programs that, along with a quick kernel customization installed on the iPhone, allows you to transfer an entire image of the phone to a PC in under an hour, or you can use them to grab live data with about 2 minutes work. That remote kill feature? Pop out the SIM card and the iPhone won't receive the signal to turn off.

Windows 7 is on its way to manufacturers as Microsoft has finally signed off on it. October 22 is still the release date when you can actually get your hands on the disk you pre-ordered a few months back. OEMs get to play with the English version July 24 and the remaining languages on July 28 and various other groups receiving advanced copies. One group that will not be receiving a present from Microsoft are the beta testers. Unlike Vista, testers who actively participated in the public beta will not be receiving a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition.